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Russia-linked APT28 compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to facilitate cyber operations

Security Affairs

“These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. Communication to and from the EdgeRouters involved encryption using a randomly generated 16-character AES key.

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UK Suffers Third Highest Rate of Ransomware Attacks in the World

IT Governance

Across the UK, the education sector was the most frequently targeted, with 24 incidents. The other most vulnerable sectors were business services (23), construction (22), manufacturing (19) and transport (18). Small businesses are vulnerable to cyber attacks because they lack the resources to address cyber security.

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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

Hancitor became another commodity malware which partnered with ransomware gangs to help them gain initial access to target networks – the increasing trend outlined by Group-IB researchers in the recent Ransomware Uncovered 2020/2021 report. Files are encrypted using ChaCha20 with 12-bytes length IV.

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Top GRC Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. Its features include: Compliance education & management. The post Top GRC Tools & Software for 2021 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. LogicManager.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

For example: On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. 26,633 (May 12, 2021). Agency (July 19, 2021, revised Aug. 14,028, 86 Fed. and Allied cyberspace assets. DDoS attacks in Q3 grow by 24%, become more sophisticated , Kaspersky (Nov. supply chain attacks). government.

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Data security: Why a proactive stance is best

IBM Big Data Hub

Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations. It means physically securing servers and user devices, managing and controlling access, application security and patching, maintaining thoroughly tested, usable data backups and educating employees. Require strong passwords.

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What is Ransomware? Everything You Should Know

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?